To be very clear, this product was only ever designed and built due to all the detractors that said the Currie failed when they landed on their tie rod or bashed it into a rock and bent it. If you drove it home or back to camp, that isn't a failure. John did a great job with his product, it is designed to bend and absorb the punishment without transferring too much of that load upstream to other components that are harder to repair.
Think of it like a crumple zone on a car in a frontal impact that protects the driver.
I got tired and weary from explaining it over and over and finally said "fine, you want one that you can't bend, here you go, now don't call me if you break something else". Fortunately, the very high level of toughness and resilience mitigates some of the upstream transfer, but I would never promise that is enough to be wholly smart. To date, I only know of a single incident where something else failed and given what I know of what happened, I suspect the same failure would have occurred with any tie rod. You can't drop from a good distance, land on the tie rod right next to where it attaches to the steering arm and not expect something bad to happen.